Crime and Punishment Thematic Topics

Here are the topics we brainstormed in class on November 13:

Crime and Punishment is a book about…
· Life
· Guilt
· Crime
· Punishment
· Chance vs. coincidence
· Illusion vs. reality
· Internal conflict of man(insanity)
· Drunkenness
· The Angry Russians ft. T-Sale
· Emotions
· Cycles of poverty
· Class conflict/social order
· Self-deception and justification for immorality
· Hats
· Pride
· Sacrifice
· Love
· Philosophy
· The importance of family
· Prostitution
· Painful deaths
· Morality (deep…)
· Conscience
· Dreams
· Socialism
· Drunken Russians
· Science vs. religion
· Biblical allusions
· Carnal nature of man
· Role of women
· Violence
· Infatuation